Controversy before, ovations after! Rula Jebreal's monologue "moved" Ariston's hall last night and perfectly tested the genius of woman power, speech, and not only! Trembling, permeating the skin of everyone who hears for the first time the personal confession of a famous journalist, which may well be my story, yours reading this article, of us all! This is the feeling one experiences when listening to Rula Jebreal's monologue.
"Urgent words" flow like a river that can "flood" us too! Armani's glittering outfit was nothing compared to the brightness of her strong brown eyes. She, alone, between the two speech modes a white and a black, glittered over everything! Over the black, over raw phrases, haunting questions, alarming numbers, all this atmosphere echoed last night over the music of Italian hit songs like "Sally" by Vasco, "La donna cannone" by De Gregory, "La Cura di Battiato "and" Ce tempo "by Fossati.
The Palestinian journalist testified that she was to the end steadfast in the focus and task for which she was selected. She, alone, in that illuminated scene, spoke of "an international emergency, of violence against women," not just addressing the problem! On the contrary! The monologue becomes transversal and reaches into the heart, into the consciousness of all people, regardless of gender, age, and religion. A unique example brought to Sanremo, perfect to tackle a topic as serious and urgent as violence against women. A media event that, between a song and a presenter's and a master's house bat, finds room for a dedicated and dedicated intervention for a certain category of women.
A sentiment with harsh notes against violence that is wreaking havoc on women, with frightening and stubborn figures and unscrupulous examples of the silence of society, family, friends and everyone else that drives many to shut up mouth in the face of this sad, sad reality! The journalist's reflection was apparently a life story, sticking to her skin, that seemed to emanate from her whole being, with all the power of voice and sense of protagonism, because Rula was real!
"Tonight let's talk about music, which is a universal language. Tonight let's all take a step forward. I would have a simple advice: let's not try to gaff maybe" ...
"Did you have any underwear that night? Do you remember doing contraceptive research that morning? These are just some of the phrases that are said to victims of sexual violence. we are never innocent. Because we denounced it too late or too early. Because we are too beautiful or too ugly, "she stressed.
"I grew up in an orphanage with hundreds of children. We were telling a different story every evening. They were sad stories. They were stories of unfortunate children whom the dream took away from them. We talked to each other about mothers often tortured or killed every night, we wanted to believe in the words and not in the weapons because we came from a place of war. Italy has been ruthless. In the last three years, there have been three million 150,000 women who have been subjected to sexual violence in the workplace. In the past two years, 88 women have suffered violence every day, one every 15 minutes. just last week. In 80% of cases the perpetrator doesn't need to knock on the gate because he has the keys to the house. "
"Tomorrow, ask me how the Sanremo presenters were dressed, ask how Jebreal was dressed, but never ask a woman how she was dressed the day they were raped. Never ask again! My mother, Nadia, was afraid from this question and she couldn't, like many other women, we don't want to be afraid anymore.
I owe it to my mother, I owe it to myself. We owe it to our daughters and toddlers out there. We can no longer let anyone deprive us of the right to sleep with a fairy tale. We women, want to be free in space, on time. We want to be silent, to make noise. We want to be what it is now: Music, "the Palestinian journalist concluded her monologue as the room rose to its feet, accompanied by long applause.
Doesn't it look like a "cut" suit for Albania and the Albanian reality? Handwritten by a man who basically has the story of her life and her mother's, but who speaks with voice and figure to the sad realities where violence against women is sitting cross-legged and we applaud, do not denounce, i we leave without evil, without the point of responsibility that maybe we can save a life, a mother, a wife ...
Not far from two days ago, the last victim in the women's ranks became a woman from Xhafzotaj of Durres! Her immigrant husband ruthlessly killed her in the toilet of the house, stabbing her three times and causing her immediate death, as the whole event happened in the eyes of children whose screams and howls had disturbed her quiet sleep of the neighbors who had alerted the police ... Unfortunately, too late because another life was lost! Three children remain orphaned, while a father will serve a severe sentence for cruelly killing his life companion, claiming she betrayed and murdered unknown men at home while he was an immigrant in the neighboring state.
How many other stories of victims of violence against women need to be recycled or brought to our attention to slightly change the bitter reality we live in every day, where Rula Jebreal looked like last night from the steps of Ariston Palace where the theme was music, chose to speak to women about this alarm bell that should ring on the ears of us all! Awakening us from the vague thoughts, from the stuff we often strive to disrupt the rhythm and balance of our lives, not only!
Women for women! This is our strength because we can all!
